Nuxeo, with the kind help of the Zope team of Chalmers University, plans to organise a Zope 3 sprint on April 3-7 in our premises in Paris. The focus of the sprint, like last year's successful sprint, will be ECM (Enterprise Content Management). Last year's Paris sprint was a turning point for the Zope roadmap, when it was decided to include Five in Zope 2.8, a decision which led to the current state of the Zope landscape (CMF 2.0 / CPS 3.4 / Plone 2.5 / Silva 1.5 - all full of Zope 3 components, etc.) We hope to make similar significant advances this year. Program: The current state of Z3ECM is currently best described in these slides: http://www.z3lab.org/sections/news/z3ecm-roadmap-september8593/ as well as on the www.z3lab.org website itself. 4 main themes for the sprint are currently emerging: - Repository: there is some unfinished conceptual and preliminary implementation work to be done regarding document repository design (including relations between documents, ORM-based storage, etc.) Ref: http://www.nuxeo.com/publications/slides/versioning-and-relation/downloadFil... http://www.z3lab.org/sections/front-page/design-features/ecm-platform-concep... - CPSSkins v3: Jean-Marc Orliaguet already has a very advanced implementation, that currently is Zope 3 only. We plan to bridge it with Zope 2 using Five to make it available on the current CMF-based platforms (at least CPS 3.4). Ref: http://www.z3lab.org/sections/blogs/jean-marc-orliaguet/archive_view?categor... http://svn.z3lab.org/trac/z3lab/browser/cpsskins/branches/jmo-perspectives/ - AJAX: we plan to generalize the current approach of CPSSkins v3, which is to use a JavaScript MVC library that exchanges JSON data structures with the server, to all the AJAX interactions. Ref: http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/blogs/tarek_ziade/archive_view?category=AJAX http://www.z3lab.org/sections/blogs/jean-marc-orliaguet/archive_view?categor... - XForms: we intend to make XML Schemas and XForms the new model for documents and their representation in Z3ECM. This is specially important for interoperability with the Apogee project (http://apogee.nuxeo.org/). Ref: http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/blogs/eric_barroca/2005_09_05_ajax-does-not-... At Nuxeo, we intend to make all these developments available either on top on CPS 3.4, or for the next iteration of CPS (CPS 3.6). But we'd also like to share these developments with the rest of the Zope 3 / CMF / Plone / etc. communities, if they are interested. Participation: The sprint is open to experimented Zope 3 / CMF / CPS / Plone developers. We already have booked 4-5 developers from Nuxeo, and Jean-Marc Orliaguet and Dario Lopez-Kärsten from Chalmers. Please join the discussion on the z3lab mailing list (http://lists.nuxeo.com/mailman/listinfo/z3lab) or contact me (sf@nuxeo.com) if you would like to participate. The sprint is free (but you have to pay for your own travel and accomodation). We (Nuxeo) will modestly provide free pizzas / sandwiches / diet Coke, etc. NB: the dates (3-7 April) have been chosen so that long distance travelers can go to the Swiss sprint afterwards (8-13 April). If this is inconvenient for a majority of sprinters, we may change to the week after the Swiss sprint (17-21 April) but this change has to be decided quickly. I will confirm the date in a later announcement (next week). So, once again, let's followup on the z3lab list. S. -- Stéfane Fermigier, Tel: +33 (0)6 63 04 12 77 (mobile). Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server: http://www.nuxeo.com/cps Gestion de contenu web / portail collaboratif / groupware / open source!